One of my close friends from law school has a singular devotion to KFC, preferably extra crispy, as the pregame entrée. Once, we stopped at Popeye’s and got the Cajun spiced chicken. I don’t know if the spices or the variance from the established routine offended him more, but 30 plus years later, he still grouses when we simply drive past a Popeye’s.

Down here in the South, people will fight you over barbecue, fried chicken, or iced tea. It’s nice to know folks recognize what’s important.

Dude, get real. Nobody makes their own fried chicken anymore. Its not worth the effort, time, and mess when at best, its going to be as good as KFC, Popeyes, or Bojangles. And you can’t cook it on the scale the chains can so its all hot at the same time unless your army of fryers is so big it takes up half your garage when not in use.

Have you had a recent head injury? I don’t know if you’ve actually been to the South, but I hear some folks actually eat fried chicken PREPARED BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN THEMSELVES. There are these newfangled inventions called “restaurants,” including some fast food places, that are all the rage. “Iced tea” is a term that includes unsweet as well as sweet tea.

You should try to get out a little more. Thanks for your input, though.

Not necessarily in order of favorites, mostly proximity when the cravings start:
Publix, Ingalls, Church’s, Popeyes, Ryan’s, Ryan’s, Bojangle’s, KFC, The little joint right off I-20 in Meridian, Mississippi………
I know I have a problem.

Back in the day when Hardee’s had fried chicken on the menu, it was damn good. They cutt it off the menu because they felt they were too spread out and not focused on their core business of burgers and fries. Ok, I get that. But then they go and start offering that damn Red Burrito crap on the menu. Chicken is distracting, but faux Taco Bell is ok?!?!?

Yeah, both my grandmothers ate fried chicken their whole lives and they were struck down at 93 and 97. Genetics will kill you much faster than any food and I’d hate to get hit by a truck and right before I died think “I sure wish I had eaten more of the stuff I like”.

It’s very, very, very important that the cook can make chicken gravy from the drippin’s left in the frying pan. And it’s almost essential that the gravy be served very hot on very tender (sticky) white rice. Mashed potatoes are acceptable, but rice is best…And there must be biscuits to slice and pour the gravy over. Serve with greeen beans and iced tea and your “Down Home” .

That’s exactly the way it was at my girlfriend/wife’s house back in HS and college. They made enough for suppah and had lots of leftovers for late night snacks after the date. The biscuits were “cat eyes” and if the cook hadn’t passed away years ago, I’d weigh 280 by now. Proper friend chicken that isn’t around anymore. (They had the same chicken at Marlow’s in Madison years ago, but it closed.) Green beans or buttah beans, didn’t matter.

No surprise, as fast food (and most restaurants for that matter) are unbelievably bad for you and will cause you to pack on weight quick.

In my office of approx 400 employees, the ones who either bring their own lunch or choose healthy lunch options are almost all in solid shape, whereas the ones who come walking back in with their Chick-fil-A, McD’s, or Applebee’s to go cups in their hand are almost all overweight. No coincidence.

Fried chicken? Bea’s in Chattanooga. Along with a limited menu of other southern staples like chow chow, BBQ, tea. Right across the state line from Rossville. Served on a lazy susan, open table. Had one gentleman tell me we can eat all we want – there’s no preservatives!

No mention of Gus’s fried chicken in Memphis? That was the one bright spot in that miserable Liberty Bowl trip a few years ago. Coincidentally, we had Popeye’s spicy chicken last night. Yummy, even if it did shave a year off my life.

Okay, so I read them again. Got me.
Honestly, the part of the state I live in (west of SLC) reminds me a ton of where I was raised. Small town, small crowd. The exception is accents and hospitality. I almost refuse to open doors for people now (almost). My kids are routinely questioned when saying ma’am and sir.
This Dixie that you refer to does not exist in any part of the state no matter the claims.
Almost forgot….home crowds at high school football games are less than visiting crowds back home. And it’s generally not even close.

interesting…would not have guessed that people don’t hold doors. Funny u mention HS football, I had a conversation today with a guy about HS season kickoff (2 weeks away baby!. My kids don’t go there yet and neither did I, but it’s a community event.

As to “Dixie”, I recently read an article that referenced the school and I was completely unawares.

St. George is a nice area. Still ain’t Dixie though.
My boy is starting HS this year and “hopefully” will be starting B back for the local 9th grade team. May get some time running with JV too. His coach is a pretty big fan of the PJ.

All these comments about fried Chicken and no one mentions Buckner’s at exit 201 on I-75, or Ole Times country Buffet, Valdosta and Macon. There is no better fried chicken in the state coming from a restaurant than those 2

Here I was prepared to put forth oracles about gibbous players and you bunch of dinosaur-eatin’, chicken-pluckin’, fowl tastin’ Dawgs have set my craving off. Bought a nice rack of lean ribs to go with some Brunswick stew my wife surprised me with last night. I added a wee bit hot sauce and a drop of smoky BBQ sauce to each bowl full. It’s the first time she has attempted to make it after bragging some years ago that she could guess the ingredients. She nailed ‘um right down to the Worcestershire sauce, butter beans, corn and shredded pork. Hope that makes you bunch of food sadists salivate and masticate using two hands.

Right now I’m headed for a snappin’ turtle to add to leftover Brunswick stew to make a nice turtle mull. What? Of course I’m going to put a chicken in it!

Quote Of The Day

“But outside of that, the biggest advantage you can have is have good leadership, have a veteran football team, and when you’ve got that, it doesn’t matter whether you have spring practice or not. When you don’t have that, it’s tougher, when you don’t have leadership and you don’t have the experience at certain positions.”— Kirby Smart, Dawgs247, 3/31/20